Title: Full width — removing sidebars
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Full width — removing sidebars

 *  [ronrapp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronrapp/)
 * (@ronrapp)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/)
 * I’d like to keep the top navigation bar, but eliminate all the sidebars. How 
   would one accomplish that?

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 *  [Pete Houston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xjaphx/)
 * (@xjaphx)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410252)
 * You can add this to your functions.php template
 *     ```
       /* remove parent sidebars */
       function aquatify_remove_fourteen_sidebars() {
         unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ); // primary on left
         unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-2' ); // secondary on right
       }
       add_action( 'widgets_init', 'aquatify_remove_fourteen_sidebars', 11 );
       ```
   
 * You can see my page, which removes the primary sidebar, [http://pcode.petehouston.com/](http://pcode.petehouston.com/)
 *  [JoshuaMunoz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuamunoz/)
 * (@joshuamunoz)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410293)
 * I must be at a loss, because I’ve copied functions.php into my child folder, 
   edited it, but nothing is happening!
 * In addition, I can’t even see functions.php from the editor inside of WordPress,
   so I edited it via FTP and uploaded it that way. I know it’s in the child folder,
   it’s just not showing up.
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410294)
 * I have a plugin that does just that and then some more…
    [http://wordpress.org/plugins/fourteen-extended/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/fourteen-extended/)
 * Try it and let me know if it helps.
 *  [JoshuaMunoz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuamunoz/)
 * (@joshuamunoz)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410295)
 * Don’t lots of plugins slow a site down?
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410296)
 * Not necessarily – it all depends on how heavy the plugins are.
 * You could just grab the code out of the plugin and use that if you wish 😉
 *  [soopafly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soopafly/)
 * (@soopafly)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410297)
 * Not all plugins slow down a site, however it’s another layer that you need to
   maintain and make sure is working with each update.
 *  [Uwhoosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uwhoosh/)
 * (@uwhoosh)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410301)
 * [@joshuamunoz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuamunoz/)
    “Do not copy
   the full content of functions.php of the parent theme into functions.php in the
   child theme.” See [codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes). And I always
   choose code over plugin.
 *  [Hinti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hinti/)
 * (@hinti)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410309)
 * when you have sites, you can set this in the options to “full site” except of
   standardtemplate! thats functionality in original-fourteen theme.
 *  [Griff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/griffinjay/)
 * (@griffinjay)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410332)
 * What might be the best way to make the content for a single page full width? 
   I need to embed a message board forum on a page.
 * I’ve got the Fourteen Extended plug installed and have selected “full width page”
   template for the one page. The sidebars are gone but the content for the page
   is still narrow.
 * It looks like this tutorial is what I need:
    [http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/create-a-full-width-page-for-wordpress-in-5-simple-steps/](http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/create-a-full-width-page-for-wordpress-in-5-simple-steps/)
 * Or is there a better/easier way?
 *  [Brian Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zgani/)
 * (@zgani)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410339)
 * [@griff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/griff/) – at the bottom of the edit
   screen is the option “Set Page To True Full-width?”, does that not work?
 *  [gabstero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabstero/)
 * (@gabstero)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410359)
 * How can one remove the sidebar(s) only on a certain page (home page)?
 * thanks
 *  [emilyTK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilytk/)
 * (@emilytk)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410365)
 * The solution was posted to a similar thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-left-sidebar](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-left-sidebar)
 * [@gabstero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabstero/) If you want to strip
   your home page of the sidebar, find dsalon’s comment in the thread I linked above,
   and put “.home ” before all the CSS rules, like so:
 *     ```
       @media screen and (min-width: 783px) {
   
       .home .primary-navigation {
       float: right;
       margin-left: 20px;
       }
       }
       ```
   
 *  [gabstero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabstero/)
 * (@gabstero)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/full-width-removing-sidebars/#post-4410366)
 * Thanks much [@emilytk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilytk/) !!
 * worked! cheers!

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